Comments on: Breaking Down Javascript Calls From a Link

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:37:30 +0000

@John Middlemas – good point

By: John Middlemas

John Middlemas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:53:23 +0000

I found the Related Reading link you quote about void(0) to be misleading since it does not actually show that void(0) should be avoided but only that “return false” should be used in the onClick. If you use “return false” in the onClick then having javascript:void(0) will be ignored. You could in fact have javascript:anything at all and it would also be ignored.

By: Lenn Dolling

Lenn Dolling — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:26:40 +0000

Excellent. lots of developers need to know the above.

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:19:14 +0000

@faye

Normally the brower will display the value of href in the status bar when you mouse over a link. You can override this with the Javascript line -> window.defaultStatus = “This is the status bar text”; Put that inside the onMouseOver and onMouseOut attributes of your link. Without knowing more about your code, it’s hard to say why the error message is coming up, though.

@Mark

The problem might be that you are using href=”void(0)” instead of href=”javascript: void(0);”. I assume that the way you have it now is trying to link to a file on you web server called void(0).

By: Mark rtzassociates

Mark rtzassociates — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:59:02 +0000

PROBLEM for 2 weeks:
When i click
href=\”void(0)\” rel=\”nofollow\”
an overlay Window with some css background-image styles will show

*(on live site) in IE6 NO background image, but in Firefox YES ,
*(on my localhost) in IE6 YES background image also in Firefox YES

\”Whats happening here? no javascript errors rechecked external css links, images links ALL OK BUT WHY background-images wont show ON IE6 ON LIVE! but in local it shows?\”

I use then the \”#\” in href but after clicking the current screen will go to the VERY TOP, some kinda annoying.

AT LAST i googled this page THANK YOU VERY MUCH
will read more on your pages here.

By: faye

faye — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:51:35 +0000

Hi,

Your tutorial is very helpful.. I just hope it can be applied to my problem… I also have this problem with .. my problem is that when I place the mouse pointer over the image, the status bar displays “javascript:void(0)” but when i removed the mouse pointer from the image, the “Error on page” is displayed instead… I have tried using href=”#” but to no avail… please help

thanks and more power!